Descend Quotes

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by… — Annie Besant
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes
Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot… — Xavier Becerra
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence… — Ravi Zacharias
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down… — James Thomas Fields
The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me. — Patsy Cline
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the… — Ole Hallesby
Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to… — James Finley
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. — Dorothy L. Sayers
For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand,… — Sri Aurobindo
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national… — John Ashcroft

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